Steve Bell's Math 266 class
MA 26600 151 (CRN 22091) MWF 10:30-11:20 am in UNIV 003
Ordinary Differential Equations
Professor Steve Bell
OFFICE: Math 750
OFFICE PHONE: (765)-494-1497
OFFICE HOURS: M,W,Th 2:00-3:00 pm or by appointment
E-MAIL: bell AT math DOT purdue DOT you_know_where
URL:
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~bell
Grader: Wei-Cheng Chu
E-MAIL: chu116 AT purdue DOT you_know_where
TEXTBOOK: Elementary Differential Equations and
Boundary Value Problems 10e
with WebAssign, Boyce and DiPrima, 10th Edition.
MA 266 Main Home Page at
http://www.math.purdue.edu/MA266
The AFTERMATH -- scribbled over notes from
Bell's tablet PC at the end of lecture and boilercasts.
MA 266 Final Exam, Thursday, May 3,
1:00-3:00 pm in the
Elliott Hall of Music
The final exam is a 20 question multiple choice exam
covering Lessons 1-35. Bring #2 pencils and erasers.
You are not allowed to use notes or crib sheets. This
Table of Laplace transforms
will be given as the last page of the exam.
Our section will sit near the stage as shown in this
seating chart.
Written homework assignments due in class
- HWK 1: Lessons 1,2,3 due Wednesday, January 17
- HWK 2: Lessons 4,5 due Wednesday, January 24
- HWK 3: Lessons 6,7,8 due Wednesday, January 31
- HWK 4: Lessons 9,10,11 due Wednesday, February 7
- HWK 5: Lesson 12 due Wednesday, February 14
- HWK 6: Lessons 13,14,15 due Wednesday, February 21
- HWK 7: Lessons 16,17,18 due Wednesday, February 28
- HWK 8: Lessons 20,21 due Wednesday, March 7
- Project 1: due Tuesday, March 20, 11:00 pm on Blackboard
- HWK 9: Lessons 23,24 due Wednesday, March 28
- Project 2: due Friday, March 30, 11:00 pm on Blackboard
- HWK 10: Lessons 25,26,27 due Wednesday, April 4
- HWK 11: Lessons 28,29,30 due Wednesday, April 11
- HWK 12: Lessons 31,32 due Wednesday, April 18
- HWK 13: Lessons 33,34,35 due Wednesday, April 25
- Project 3: due Thursday, April 26, 11:00 pm on Blackboard
Projects due on Blackboard
- Project 1: due Tuesday, March 20, 11:00 pm on Blackboard
- Project 2: due Friday, March 30, 11:00 pm on Blackboard
- Project 3: due Thursday, April 26, 11:00 pm on Blackboard
WebAssign homework due dates (at 11:00 pm)
- Lessons 1 and 2 due Thursday, January 11
- Lesson 3 due Tuesday, January 17
- Lesson 4 due Thursday, January 18
- Lesson 5 due Monday, January 22
- Lessons 6 and 7 due Thursday, January 25
- Lesson 8 due Monday, January 29
- Lessons 9 and 10 due Thursday, February 1
- Lesson 11 due Monday, February 5
- Lesson 12 due Monday, February 12
- Lessons 13 and 14 due Thursday, February 15
- Lesson 15 due Monday, February 19
- Lessons 16 and 17 due Thursday, February 22
- Lesson 18 due Monday, February 26
- Lessons 19 and 20 due Thursday, March 1
- Lesson 21 due Monday, March 5
- Lessons 22 and 23 due Thursday, March 8
- Lesson 24 due Monday, March 26
- Lessons 25 and 26 due Thursday, March 29
- Lesson 27 due Monday, April 2
- Lessons 28 and 29 due Thursday, April 5
- Lesson 30 due Monday, April 9
- Lessons 31 due Thursday, April 12
- Lesson 32 due Monday, April 16
- Lessons 33 and 34 due Thursday, April 19
- Lesson 35 due Monday, April 23
Exam 2 covered Lessons 13-23
You can find old MA 266 final exams archived at
Old MA 266 Final Exams
In particular, links to answers to the exams from Spring
and Fall 2015 and 2017 can be found there. Here are some
good problems/answers on which to test yourself:
Fall 2015: 8. C 9. C 10. D 11. C 12. B 13. C
Fall 2017: 7. C 8. D 9. B 10. E 11. A 12. E 13. D
Exam 1 covered Lessons 1-11
Resources
A LaTeX
tutorial for Piazza to be viewed in Adobe Reader in full screen
mode a page at a time.
Right click and save the m-file
eul.m or click on this
text file
and copy the text to a file
named eul.m for use with MATLAB.
See the main MA 266 home page for a tutorial.
Grading policies
Written homework will be collected roughly once a week.
Only 4 problems will be graded by the grader per week.
Each problem will be worth five points and so each
written homework assignment will be graded on a scale
of 0 to 20. See the Groundrules on the main MA 266 Home
Page for more information about grades and grading.
There will be two in-class midterm exams and one final exam.
No notes, books, or calculators will be allowed during exams.
Each hour exam will be worth 100 points, the homework, project,
quizzes grade will be scaled to 200 points, and the final will
be worth 200 points, making a total of 600 points for the
whole course.